By Bob Gaydos
This past week, five prominent figures in American society died, one after another, and it seemed, at least to me, that the dots were literally screaming to be connected: Charles T. Munger, 99; Rosalynn Carter, 99; Henry Kissinger, 100; Sandra Day O’Connor, 93, and Norman Lear, 101.

By Bob Gaydos
With Christmas and New Year’s revelry still to come, it may be a good time for anyone wondering about his or her drinking behavior to take a self-assessment.

By Bob Gaydos
The Supreme Court and some geniuses promoting artificial intelligence both insist they are bound by ethical codes of conduct. They’re just having trouble proving it.

By Bob Gaydos
What did we lose at Dealey Plaza? Certainly, whatever innocence we still possessed. The wind was sucked from our sails as a nation and our domestic politics have slowly and steadily deteriorated into such partisanship that is virtually impossible for any president to speak to the minds and hearts of a majority of Americans the way Kennedy did.

By Bob Gaydos
The Curtis Granderson shirt my son, Zack, gave me quite a few years ago, finally fits. The good news for me was revealed by good news for Granderson. Synchronicity.

By Bob Gaydos
Trump is simply a menace to democracy and doesn’t belong anywhere near the White House again. The facts and his daily statements make that abundantly clear to a majority of Americans. Unfortunately, none of his Republican “challengers” is willing to say that.

By Bob Gaydos
The week featured a new House Speaker who questions the constitutional separation of church and state and a mass shooting in a state where mass shootings don’t happen.

By Bob Gaydos
Guilty pleas by three Trump lawyers in Georgia may be a message for those who can read the handwriting. History needs to know.

By Bob Gaydos
If the Republican Party has any hope of ever again being considered a legitimate, pro-democracy organization, it must rid itself of Trump and Trumpers. Sitting and waiting for the courts to possibly do it is the cowards’ way out.

By Bob Gaydos
The vicious terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel overshadowed the unprecedented shutting down of the House of Representatives by the majority Republicans because they could not elect a Speaker.